In this Life Magazine, the movie "Guys and Dolls" features on the cover and in a feature article; Air Force survival school; forest fires on the Pacific coast; new jet speed of 822.135 mph; the Iowa State Fair; a North Carolina rabbi holds services in a bus; female parachutist; new atlas; new sculpture for the National Cathedral; a lion becomes a family pet in Texas; volunteers test food preserved by radiation; in fashion, long sweater dresses, Space and saucer house in Oklahoma; vintage vacuum cleaners, Russia's Food Crisis; Harry Truman's memoirs set to publish; French scientists whistle to understand grasshopper mating calls; couple with 12 children; Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau watch a bullfight. This issue has 210 pages and a mailing label on front cover.
Ads:
- Whirlpool washers, Crosley Shelvador 100 refrigerator, Eureka vacuum cleaners
- Lady Borden Tropic Isle Pineapple Ice Cream,
- General Electric 32 lb "personal" (portable) television, RCA Victor Television, Bell & Howell movie camera, RCA Super Luminized Silverama picture tube.
- Cheerios, Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, Log Cabin Maple Syrup, Pillsbury Cake Mixes, Jell-O; Aunt Jemima Pancake mix, Libby's Sliced Pineapple
- New Chrysler cars, Chevrolet cars, Buick, Pontiac Star Chief Catalina
- the movie "Trial" with Glenn Ford;
- GE Deluxe Pink Light Bulbs; Anchor glass,
- Hammond Chord Organ; Hide-A-Bed Sofa; Royal Typewriters, Eureka vacuum cleaners pens
- Maidenform Bras, Vitalis Hair Tonic, DuPont Nylon lingerie
- Norman Rockwell Corn Flakes ad,
- Bell Telephones; Little Lulu promotes Kleenex tissues; Melmac dinnerware, Friskies dog food and more.